Metal Anarchy

KISS are currently working on a 50th anniversary edition of “Alive!.” The news was confirmed by producer Eddie Kramer.

Kramer said the following during an appearance on “The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond The Music“:

“It’s a project I spent 46 days mixing. It’s called ‘KISS Alive! 50’, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ‘Alive!’ album, the first ‘Alive!’ album, which was mixed at Electric Lady [studios in New York City] in 1975, 50 years ago. And, fortunately, they found all the bloody tapes — thank God. It was incredible.

Jeff Fura at Universal — big shoutout to him — he came up with the tapes; he found them. And so we spent all this time restoring them, transferring them, and then I mixed every single show that actually contributed to the final one, plus all the rehearsals that Gene [Simmons] and Paul [Stanley] said, ‘We’ve gotta record in the afternoon,’ which they did, thank God, because we were able to capture some fantastic performances.

What you hear during this period is that those guys were serious about getting this record out and making it sound fantastic. And then I mixed the final album in Dolby Atmos. So it’s a beautiful package that’s coming out, I think, late fall.”

[via Blabbermouth]